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Central asia

Turkmen Gas Finally Gets Washington’s Attention – A Little too Late

One of Washington’s key policy tenets since the 1991 collapse of Communism has been to pry out from under Moscow’s control as much of the energy assets of the post-Soviet space as possible.

Nowhere has this policy been more evident than in the Caspian basin and the energy riches of the new

07/06/2011 0 comment

Renewable Energy

China Winning the Race for Central Asia’s Energy Riches

written by Walter Wang

Many western analysts have described the post-Soviet tussle for Caspian and Central Asian energy reserves as the new “Great Game, except this time around, Russia is facing the U.S. rather than the British empire.

To a dispassionate outside observer however, what

06/27/2011 0 comment